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Land with a climate like Hikari

🇯🇵Hikari, Yamaguchi, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Hikari are Nakatsu, Japan (99% match), Dazaifu and Kitakyushu. About 438,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Hubei, China and Zhejiang, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Hikari are Nakatsu, Japan (99% match), Dazaifu and Kitakyushu. About 1.1 million km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Hubei, China and Zhejiang, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,278 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,278 chill hours · 1,700 mm rain

What grows in Hikari →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    51k sq mi133k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wulingyuan (92), Zhangjiajie (90)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    45k sq mi117k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (91), Enshi (89)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    40k sq mi103k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (96), Fenghua (92)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    17k sq mi44k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (89), Havelock (87)

  5. 5

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    8,100 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (85), Haenam (84)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasebo (99), Saikai (99)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    5,600 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Izumi (97), Tsuruda (96)

  8. 8

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Virginia Beach (91), Newport News (90)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hōjō (99), Uchiko (99)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    3,500 sq mi9,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Seogwipo (99), Jeju City (99)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    2,000 sq mi5,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Geoje (88), Tongyeong (88)

  12. 12

    🇺🇸South Carolina, United States

    1,000 sq mi2,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example North Myrtle Beach (81), Myrtle Beach (80)

Regions are states and provinces, counting land within 75 km of a town. At most three per country, so the list covers the world.

Closest towns

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    🇯🇵NakatsuOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 1,594 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵DazaifuFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,259 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,259 chill hours · 1,740 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵KitakyushuFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 1,682 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵MatsuyamaEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,242 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,242 chill hours · 1,595 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵SaseboNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,166 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,166 chill hours · 1,954 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵NiihamaEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,189 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,189 chill hours · 1,607 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵HigashihiroshimaHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,469 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,469 chill hours · 1,678 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵SakaidechōKagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,359 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,359 chill hours · 1,472 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵YokkaichiMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 1,700 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵ŌitaOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,068 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,068 chill hours · 1,803 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵MasudaShimane, Japan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 1,688 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵AraoKumamoto, Japan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,233 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,233 chill hours · 1,731 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵KikuchiKumamoto, Japan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,220 chill hours · 75 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,220 chill hours · 1,893 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵NagatoYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 9a · 281 frost-free days · 1,100 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 9a · 281 frost-free days · 1,100 chill hours · 1,637 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵InoKochi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,194 chill hours · 83 in rainZone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,194 chill hours · 2,108 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵UwajimaEhime, Japan

    Zone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,023 chill hours · 75 in rainZone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,023 chill hours · 1,912 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵NagasakiJapan

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 1,039 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 1,039 chill hours · 2,067 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵SaikiOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 2,050 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵OkayamaJapan

    Zone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 1,433 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    99%match
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    🇯🇵KumamotoJapan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,147 chill hours · 78 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,147 chill hours · 1,990 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match

Any town over 15,000 people, skipping those within 75 km of you. ↻ = seasons flipped across the equator.

How matching works

We compare all twelve months of average highs and lows, rain, humidity and sunshine, the same way as Climatch's places-like search, but weighted for growing: winter lows count most, since frost, chill and hardiness decide which perennials survive, then summer highs and rain. Humidity counts least.

Scores show how unusual a match this close is: 80 or better is closer than all but about 2% of random pairs of places. Across the equator seasons are lined up (↻), so a southern farm's January is compared with a northern July. Climate is only part of it: check soil, water and day length (it matters for photoperiod crops) before buying land.

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Climate data: TerraClimate 1991–2020 monthly averages (Abatzoglou, J.T. et al., 2018, Scientific Data 5:170191). Humidity is derived from TerraClimate vapor pressure; “sunshine” is solar radiation.

Places: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles by OpenFreeMap.

Grower tools: crop ranges from FAO ECOCROP and university extension guides (cited per crop). Daily weather, frost dates and chill are estimated from the monthly averages; chill portions use the Dynamic Model (Fishman, Erez & Couvillon, 1987), hardiness zones follow the USDA definition.